wet behind the ears

Englisch - Türkisch

Definition von wet behind the ears im Englisch Türkisch wörterbuch

(deyim) toy

(deyim) acemi çaylak

(deyim) deneyimsiz

(deyim) acemi

Relevante Übersetzungen

be wet behind the ears

(deyim) ağzı süt kokmak

innocent, naive; novice, beginner

masum, saf, acemi, acemi

Englisch - Englisch

Definition von wet behind the ears im Englisch Englisch wörterbuch

Inexperienced; not seasoned; new; just beginning; immature, especially in judgment

These young whippersnappers are still wet behind the ears..

innocent, naive; novice, beginner

Alternative spelling of wet behind the ears

Silbentrennung

wet be·hind the ears

Türkische aussprache

wet bîhaynd dhi irz

Antonyme

dry behind the ears

Aussprache

/ˈwet bəˈhīnd ᴛʜē ˈērz/ /ˈwɛt bɪˈhaɪnd ðiː ˈiːrz/

Etymologie

() c. 1850, Pennsylvania, calque from German feucht hinter den Ohren., Ben Zimmer, , October 15, 2008Americanisms, Maximilian Schele de Vere, 1872, : “the German fancifully notices that newly-born animals are apt to be licked dry promptly everywhere except behind the ears, and hence their colloquial phrase: ‘The youngster is not dry yet behind his ears.’ The expression having become familiar to American ear in Pennsylvania first, has from thence spread to other States also.” From the drying of amniotic fluid on a baby after birth, specifically a new-born farm animal, which last dries behind the ears (partly because licked dry by mother everywhere else).“a newly born animal, as a colt or a calf, on which the last spot to become dry after birth is the little depression behind either ear,” Charles Earle Funk, 1948, A Hog On Ice. German variants (still wet behind the ears, not yet dry behind the ears, green behind the ears) also borrowed.